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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Feb 7, 2018, 4:16 AM CST for Bibb County, Alabama. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 7, 2018, 4:16 AM CST (10:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 7, 2018, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
County Bibb County, AL
The radar
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Feb 6, 5:53 PM CST, 10 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 6, 5:53 PM CST, 10 hours 23 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Feb 7, 2:46 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Pickens | 59 min |
| Feb 7, 3:22 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tuscaloosa, Walker | 53 min |
| Feb 7, 3:34 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Blount, Jefferson | 41 min |
| Feb 7, 4:44 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Shelby | 46 min |
| Feb 7, 5:11 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Sumter | 49 min |
| Feb 7, 5:38 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Perry | 52 min |
| Feb 7, 5:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Marengo, Perry | 44 min |
| Feb 7, 5:52 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Chilton | 38 min |
| Feb 7, 6:07 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 113 min |
| Feb 7, 6:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas, Perry | 37 min |
| Feb 7, 6:29 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Clay, Coosa | 61 min |
| Feb 7, 6:46 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Autauga | 44 min |
| Feb 7, 7:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Chilton | 43 min |
| Feb 7, 7:12 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Chambers, Clay, Randolph, Tallapoosa | 63 min |
| Feb 7, 7:32 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Elmore | 58 min |
| Feb 7, 7:45 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo | 8 days |
| Feb 7, 8:03 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tallapoosa | 27 min |
| Feb 7, 8:06 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 16 hr |
| Feb 7, 8:21 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lee, Macon | 39 min |
| Feb 7, 8:27 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Calhoun | 3 hr |
| Feb 7, 8:55 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lee | 35 min |
| Feb 7, 9:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 14 min |
| Feb 7, 10:06 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Barbour | 24 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.